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Some CTA Red Line trains were briefly delayed Monday night after someone made a bomb threat over the phone at a station near the Loop.
Police conducted a search and said the threat was unfounded.
“Everything has been rendered safe,” said...

The Emanuel administration will announce Monday that it is seeking bids to construct three long-planned transit projects aimed at providing faster and more reliable service for hundreds of thousands of daily commuters and city visitors who ride CTA...

Thirteen people were taken to hospitals with minor injuries after a CTA bus crashed into a pole this morning in the West Englewood neighborhood.
The crash happened about 8:50 a.m. in the 7200 block of South Ashland Avenue, said Chicago Police Department...

A South Shore man who opened fire with an assault rifle on a CTA Blue Line train at the Lasalle Street platform, striking a train car five times, offered no motive for the shooting, prosecutors said Friday.
Lorenzo Jones, 25, carried a Hi-Point .45...

A man in his 20s with a long arrest record fired an assault rifle five times at a Blue Line train at the LaSalle station Thursday morning but did not hit anyone, police said.
The man was arrested within minutes as he was walking with the rifle about a...

Five aldermen well-versed in Chicago's transportation issues on Wednesday called for yet another study to examine the feasibility and cost of launching high-quality airport express train service for O'Hare International Airport, Union Station and...

An average of 27 people a month are risking their lives by trespassing on CTA rail tracks — but that marks a 17 percent reduction over the past year, transit officials said Friday. They attribute the decrease to a new safety campaign.
A year...

A new study by an international economic organization paints an uncomplimentary portrait of the Chicago area's transportation system, saying it suffers from too many transit agencies and fragmented local governments.
"The current state of transit...

Riccardo Muti's towering authority, musical and otherwise, should reassure members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's extended family that stability and continuity will be maintained while management undergoes significant transition.
Jeff Alexander,...

For many of the 120,000 rail passengers who pass through each day, Union Station is either a mystifying maze of ramps and escalators, or a perplexing funnel that forces them to navigate perilously narrow platforms.
Commuting challenges include dodging...

Among the dozens of fanciful ideas suggested over the past year for how to transform Wabash Avenue into a more inviting corridor, Martin Stern, chairman of the Chicago Loop Alliance, joked that his favorite entailed putting a bump in the "L" tracks to...

A woman was fatally struck by a CTA bus this morning on the Southwest Side, said police.
The accident happened about 6:20 a.m. at 47th Street and Western Avenue in the city's Brighton Park neighborhood, according to the Chicago Police Department...